What is with tanks magically reverse unflipping?

[king_beast88 19]

I dont have a pic or vid but im sure you have seen this, one or more people are shooting at a tank near a ledge, and it either flips off side ways or foward and you can cleary see it will land on its side or upside down, then a split second before landing the tank just disappears and reappears atop the ledge like it never happend it didnt die and respawn either.

 

so what is this? im not lagging have 40+ fps and extremely fast t-1 connection so is this normal a bug or what? are they lagging? did they even take damage when this happens? this is annoying.

[SalvadorSTM 20]

I dont know...

 

Ive seen tanks spin around so fast that when i touch it it made me go flying! like 20-30 tanki meters across the map..

[king_beast88 19]

hmm i thought only happened on the map called massacre "edit i meant madness" "i think is it" the one that is basically all platform from top to bottom. i dont play it though ive heard of that glitch, that would be annoying as well to be thrown off the map for being touched.

[r_therussian0 47]

That can happen when your computer temporarily stops receiving the info from other players in the game. Alternativa's client is built in a way where if no info is coming in, it will approximate where the tank would be going if it continued on the last course known before the info stopped coming in. Therefore, your computer may think that the tank has flipped, but as a matter of fact it didn't, and as soon as that info starts reaching your computer again, it 'unflips'.

[king_beast88 19]

wow all the wasted railgun shots that should've gave me kills...

 

perfectly explained thanks therussian.

 

ive switched to m-2 twins now so with the 2000 xp ive picked up i wont be using rail atm, when i run back into this problem it wont bother me as much, i hope.